Northern States Power Co rate plans

What does Northern States Power Co's residential rate cost?

Northern States Power Co files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?

Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $865 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,520 — an effective 17.8¢ and 16.1¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.

With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.

Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $178 in July and $97 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.

Making sense of the bill

• How to read your electric bill

  Four kinds of charge, only two of which you can do anything about.

• Fixed charges on your electric bill: what they are and why they matter

  The line that makes cents-per-kilowatt-hour comparisons quietly wrong.

• How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong

  Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.